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Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable [message #45583]

Tue, 20 September 2005 09:23

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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Ricardo Bugalho wrote:
> Anyone knows of a way to find out the path of the executable of the
> current IDL session?
> I have an IDL program that launches other IDL sessions and I need to know
> the path to the "idl" executable.

You could take Antionio's !DIR suggestion, add a bit of PATH_SEP()+'bin'
and flavor with the recursive file_search() function and parse that. I
would think this would be the most robust solution.

-Rick

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		Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable By: Rick Towler on Tue, 20 September 2005 09:23
		Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable By: Ricardo Bugalho on Tue, 20 September 2005 02:40
		Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable By: Antonio Santiago on Mon, 19 September 2005 22:52
		Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable By: Andrew Cool on Mon, 19 September 2005 16:46
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